- IATA
- KUL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- WMKK
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1998
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 25.4M
- in 2022
History & name
Kuala Lumpur International Airport opened in 1998 and is operated by Malaysia Airports. It sits 44 km from Kuala Lumpur, handled 25.4 million passengers in 2022 and has 3 runways, the longest 4,124 m.
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At a glance
- Full name
- Kuala Lumpur International Airport
- Serves
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- City centre
- 44 km from Kuala Lumpur
- Opened
- 1998
- Operator
- Malaysia Airports
- Passengers
- 25.4 million in 2022
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 4,124 m
- Elevation
- 69 ft (21 m)
Where it sits
2.7°N, 101.7°E puts KUL in the northern hemisphere, 305 km from the equator and 9,702 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 508th most northerly, which makes it the 154th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 2.7°S, 78.3°W — 79 km from Mariscal Lamar (CUE) in Ecuador, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SZB), 46 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from KUL
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 10,605 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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